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Palmer Luckey reveals Oculus repeatedly found wiretap electronics hidden inside product samples from Chinese factories, and says they would listen in and transmit voice samples over cellular radio “Here’s another example. How many computers exist in the Japanese government, critical utilities, infrastructure and the military? Millions, at least millions... of computers. “So then the question becomes: how many of them are compromised by Chinese intelligence operations placing listening devices or false components in them? Some people would say zero, and I think they’re crazy. “I actually have personal experience with China placing listening devices into sample products that I would receive from Chinese factories. This was at my previous company, Oculus VR. My first company was a virtual-reality company I started when I was 19 years old. “There were multiple times when we discovered actual wiretap electronics in product samples that were given to us. They would listen to us and transmit the voice samples over a cellular radio. “If I experienced them trying to steal our technology and our decisions even as a small company, surely they’re targeting every government, every military, and every company.”show more

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chicodamus1 day ago

Along with the "As a loyal customer here is a free flash drive" 😂🤣

Cyrus S 🇺🇸1 day ago

And since the Europeans and Canadians are geopolitically illiterate: China is an intelligence partner of Russia, North Korea and the IRGC terrorists in Iran and that's how the Russians, the IRGC and North Korea have been so successful in their cyber attacks and cyber espionage

Aris1 day ago

That’s actually so sneaky and I think it represent not humility , but a lack of confidence in themselves They aren’t good enough so they will copy copy copy copy It’s wrong and there should be more strict standards If any company does that , they should be fined and banned

Kevin Neuburger1 day ago

You can decompile software. Try decompiling a circuit board. This is why Congress wrote Section 889: since 2019, federal agencies can't buy telecom or video gear from Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Dahua or Hytera. The harder problem is everything below that list: the parts no one ever opens up.

DPapas1 day ago

When companies were first shipping manufacturing to China, we saw China not playing by any rules. No one would listen to us from the factory floors because we were the ones losing our jobs so obviously biased.

Tom Löwe1 day ago

Remember when Palmer lied about DeepSeek having secret GPUs and their parent company High-Flyer having "a long history" of shorting American AI companies, all of which was proven false. Palmer constantly lies about China, while selling weapons to Taiwan.

Elliott D1 day ago

Palmer won't say one thing about Israel's spying, other than "give them everything they want".

Jason Buster1 day ago

IBM Thinkpad and the blue button from the early-mid 2000s.

First Contact Newsletter e/acc(W)1 day ago

lol, how many CAC readers did DoD employees buy off Amazon in 2020?

Gavin (Owner 67 Designs)1 day ago

Every machine tool!

Drake Laurant1 day ago

Keep going

TslaMan1 day ago

This is exactly the same reason why I don't eat Chinese food God knows what the hell they put in it

Michio011 day ago

He’s not lying. One of the most important things in military strategies in the east are controlling information. It’s the pinnacle of deception operations.

ltbadpuppy1 day ago

If i see any parts coming from China, even something as small as a resistor, its an instant denial

David Davis1 day ago

👍🤬🤬

Lisa Marie B1 day ago

🙄

D1 day ago

Palmer Lucky is so fun to listen to lol

Dubya1 day ago

Check out the Tianqi satellite network. Chinese spy network that can receive and broadcast IOT data.

Kane1 day ago

crazy how deep this goes fen kk

David Standridge1 day ago

All of them that they can get into. They are in wifi connected mops in the usa.

BabyStarship1 day ago

He is correct. All of our communications devices are compromised, too.

Charles Grazioli1 day ago

What makes you think that EVERY PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY FROM CHINA isn’t bugged, rigged, backdoored, kill switched, and sending terabytes of your data back to China? Because they are.

Gary Heintz1 day ago

As a recall, several decades ago, the Navy received some 67,000 micro processors for fire control systems on Navy Marine helicopters. It contained a surprise back door and radio, designed to disable the chip remotely.

MissingAFew1 day ago

Tbh should consider the fact that there are plenty of American companies with operations in China that would have loved to spy on Oculus back then too 🤷

AmadeoExile861 day ago

Gotcha

Laura Starks1 day ago

Important

Htx Yasi1 day ago

This should be obvious. Also stop sending your data through chinese LLMs online. They gotta run offline on your own machine with open weights

ROBNESS🇺🇸1 day ago

YEAH BUT ISRAEL DOES THE SHAME SHIT SO WE DON'T CARE.

RennyKitsch1 day ago

“How many are compromised” as quantum computing reaches more affordability…does anyone think that AES-256 for banking is safe any longer?

David Standridge1 day ago

They put backdoor in the chips. Lucky can help you identify them.

smokindemtweeds1 day ago

Chicoms are listening in

HANDSOME MAN1 day ago

Tell him to show those samples online or stream it, he shoulda done it long ago He has every incentive to hype the china threat to boost his IPO valuation & win business

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712,198 views • 5 months ago

Kylie Jenner says she funded Kylie Cosmetics entirely with her own money from the show and owned 100% of the company Kid Cudi: “Let’s talk about Kylie Cosmetics. Let’s take it back. How did this happen? Where did this idea come from?” Kylie: “It came from 15-year-old me. I was obsessed with makeup. I started creating this fan base, this very personal relationship with these young people, and I would go to the MAC store and I would go to the mall and I would buy all these lip liners that I wanted to overline my lips” “And then I realized my followers started becoming obsessed with what color lipstick I was wearing. And I think that’s when it was, ’cause there really wasn’t something I found out there that was my perfect thing, and a lip liner that matched the lipstick and the lip kit” “And I really wanted to do this and I was always really passionate about makeup. I would be 12 years old on YouTube when YouTube first came out, watching tutorials and wearing a purple eyeshadow in sixth grade. So it just really was super authentic” “I brought my mom the idea, Kris Jenner. She one day drove all around California. We just didn’t know where to start” “So it was hard to figure out how we were going to do this. But we found a factory in Oxnard and I just put up all my own money that I made from the show and I owned 100% of my company and I just went for it. No fear” “And my mom was like, ‘This is either going to be really great or you’re going to have lots of lip kits in the garage’” “I just had so much faith in it. I really believed in it”

Kylie Jenner says she funded Kylie Cosmetics entirely with her own money from the show and owned 100% of the company Kid Cudi: “Let’s talk about Kylie Cosmetics. Let’s take it back. How did this happen? Where did this idea come from?” Kylie: “It came from 15-year-old me. I was obsessed with makeup. I started creating this fan base, this very personal relationship with these young people, and I would go to the MAC store and I would go to the mall and I would buy all these lip liners that I wanted to overline my lips” “And then I realized my followers started becoming obsessed with what color lipstick I was wearing. And I think that’s when it was, ’cause there really wasn’t something I found out there that was my perfect thing, and a lip liner that matched the lipstick and the lip kit” “And I really wanted to do this and I was always really passionate about makeup. I would be 12 years old on YouTube when YouTube first came out, watching tutorials and wearing a purple eyeshadow in sixth grade. So it just really was super authentic” “I brought my mom the idea, Kris Jenner. She one day drove all around California. We just didn’t know where to start” “So it was hard to figure out how we were going to do this. But we found a factory in Oxnard and I just put up all my own money that I made from the show and I owned 100% of my company and I just went for it. No fear” “And my mom was like, ‘This is either going to be really great or you’re going to have lots of lip kits in the garage’” “I just had so much faith in it. I really believed in it”

sara

98,287 views • 1 month ago

The battles in Sweida, which everyone had heard about, took place. Some people came to us and told us that the Bedouin tribal sheikhs and the Druze sheikhs had agreed that we would remain brothers and that no problems would arise. Then they returned to us in the evening and told us not to leave our homes and that no one would harm us. I stayed in my home because I was going to work the next day. My husband and child stayed with me. My husband is sick and needs a joint replacement, so we did not leave. But our neighbors left their homes and fled the area. The next day, the Druze militia returned to our area and installed heavy weapons on a nearby hill, despite their promise not to harm us. They then targeted families and civilians in the neighborhood with mortar shells. We were directly targeted for two hours despite our attempts to flee the area. Then the Hajri militia searched every house individually, armed with handguns and rifles. They asked us if we had money, phones, weapons, or identification. We told them we were civilians, didn't have any weapons, and didn't know how to use them. My husband, a civilian, didn't know how to use them. I told them there was only a sick man and my child, and we were all trying to take shelter in our house. They told me I was now a prisoner. They also captured my husband and covered his face with the shirt he was wearing. I told them we were neighbors from Amad, and yesterday you had promised us safety and that we wouldn't be targeted. Why are you doing this to us now? They told me no. Then they did the same thing to the rest of the houses in the area. After that, someone came to us and, by chance, he knew my husband before. He hid us in one of the houses, gave us water to drink, and allowed my child to use the bathroom. He was kind and respectful, while the rest were just a criminal gang. Then they gathered everyone they had captured in the mosque. When I entered the mosque, I found many dead people. I found one of the children beheaded, and his mother was my neighbor. Did you see what happened? I saw them because the militia brought all the bodies to the mosque for burial. I saw one of our neighbors, who had difficulty moving due to rheumatism, and they shot him in the feet. Then they took him away, claiming they were going to treat him. Instead, they killed him in front of the mosque. This is what I saw with my own eyes. After that, because I was a nurse, they brought the injured to the mosque for treatment, even though they claimed they were taking them to the hospital. One of the family members was a doctor. I saw five of their injuries with my own eyes, all of them children. Then they made successive promises that they would release us that same day. The guards who escorted us were respectful. As for food, they offered us a cup of bulgur for every five people. I'm now trying to remember the details of what happened. There wasn't enough water, and we were over 1,000 prisoners. Why were they holding you? They told us we were prisoners, promising us they would release us. We held our belongings by the door, waiting for our release. Were they viewing you as civilian prisoners? We are prisoners of Of course. They held us captive so they could force us out of our homes and out of Sweida Governorate. I remember them asking me, "Why didn't you leave your home?" I told them you came to us yesterday, promised us safety, and told us not to leave our homes. out, so now they are asking why. When in reality, they wanted to forcibly displace us from our homes. Where are you now? We are now in Daraa Governorate. They brought us here today. 1/2 #SaveSweidaBedouins #AlHijriGangsKillChildren #Syria

The battles in Sweida, which everyone had heard about, took place. Some people came to us and told us that the Bedouin tribal sheikhs and the Druze sheikhs had agreed that we would remain brothers and that no problems would arise. Then they returned to us in the evening and told us not to leave our homes and that no one would harm us. I stayed in my home because I was going to work the next day. My husband and child stayed with me. My husband is sick and needs a joint replacement, so we did not leave. But our neighbors left their homes and fled the area. The next day, the Druze militia returned to our area and installed heavy weapons on a nearby hill, despite their promise not to harm us. They then targeted families and civilians in the neighborhood with mortar shells. We were directly targeted for two hours despite our attempts to flee the area. Then the Hajri militia searched every house individually, armed with handguns and rifles. They asked us if we had money, phones, weapons, or identification. We told them we were civilians, didn't have any weapons, and didn't know how to use them. My husband, a civilian, didn't know how to use them. I told them there was only a sick man and my child, and we were all trying to take shelter in our house. They told me I was now a prisoner. They also captured my husband and covered his face with the shirt he was wearing. I told them we were neighbors from Amad, and yesterday you had promised us safety and that we wouldn't be targeted. Why are you doing this to us now? They told me no. Then they did the same thing to the rest of the houses in the area. After that, someone came to us and, by chance, he knew my husband before. He hid us in one of the houses, gave us water to drink, and allowed my child to use the bathroom. He was kind and respectful, while the rest were just a criminal gang. Then they gathered everyone they had captured in the mosque. When I entered the mosque, I found many dead people. I found one of the children beheaded, and his mother was my neighbor. Did you see what happened? I saw them because the militia brought all the bodies to the mosque for burial. I saw one of our neighbors, who had difficulty moving due to rheumatism, and they shot him in the feet. Then they took him away, claiming they were going to treat him. Instead, they killed him in front of the mosque. This is what I saw with my own eyes. After that, because I was a nurse, they brought the injured to the mosque for treatment, even though they claimed they were taking them to the hospital. One of the family members was a doctor. I saw five of their injuries with my own eyes, all of them children. Then they made successive promises that they would release us that same day. The guards who escorted us were respectful. As for food, they offered us a cup of bulgur for every five people. I'm now trying to remember the details of what happened. There wasn't enough water, and we were over 1,000 prisoners. Why were they holding you? They told us we were prisoners, promising us they would release us. We held our belongings by the door, waiting for our release. Were they viewing you as civilian prisoners? We are prisoners of Of course. They held us captive so they could force us out of our homes and out of Sweida Governorate. I remember them asking me, "Why didn't you leave your home?" I told them you came to us yesterday, promised us safety, and told us not to leave our homes. out, so now they are asking why. When in reality, they wanted to forcibly displace us from our homes. Where are you now? We are now in Daraa Governorate. They brought us here today. 1/2 #SaveSweidaBedouins #AlHijriGangsKillChildren #Syria

Omar Alhariri

25,585 views • 1 year ago

“There was no power, and the entire country was living off diesel (gasoline). I had a lot of friends in government who used to sell it to me, and I used it to power my house. One day, I came home and there was no light, so I moved my whole family to a hotel. I called a friend and asked where I could get diesel. He gave me the contact of a company, and I bought it from them, but it was very expensive. When the truck came to my house and I looked at the meter on it, I said to myself, ‘I could do this business.’ I told my manager to call the manager of that company because I wanted to buy the company, but they refused. So, I bought a second-hand pickup and started selling diesel myself around the estate. My friends even laughed at me whenever we met at the club. Today, I am an oil tycoon.” — Femi Otedola

“There was no power, and the entire country was living off diesel (gasoline). I had a lot of friends in government who used to sell it to me, and I used it to power my house. One day, I came home and there was no light, so I moved my whole family to a hotel. I called a friend and asked where I could get diesel. He gave me the contact of a company, and I bought it from them, but it was very expensive. When the truck came to my house and I looked at the meter on it, I said to myself, ‘I could do this business.’ I told my manager to call the manager of that company because I wanted to buy the company, but they refused. So, I bought a second-hand pickup and started selling diesel myself around the estate. My friends even laughed at me whenever we met at the club. Today, I am an oil tycoon.” — Femi Otedola

carter🌚

147,408 views • 4 months ago

I love Elon Musk's old interviews. I really enjoy hearing what he said back then, knowing what the future holds. This "CBS Sunday Morning" interview was recorded in 1998, when then 27-year-old Elon talked about starting his first company: “That was the summer of '95. I had no money whatsoever. I was working, doing research in Silicon Valley on a completely different subject and trying to start this company at the same time. And when it came time to decide do I want to do graduate studies or do I want to start this company and I decided to start the company. I had no money. As a graduate student, I would have received a scholarship and a stipend and so forth. In starting the company, I had nothing. I had no income source. So we found that an office was actually cheaper than an apartment in Silicon Valley. So we got this dinky little office that had a leaky roof. It was just the nastiest place you can imagine. And you lived in it. And I lived in it too and showered at the YMCA. This lasted for about three or four months. And the reason we chose this office, in addition to it being really cheap, was that there was an internet service provider on the floor below. So we were able to get really cheap internet access by drilling a hole in the floor and connecting to their server directly.”

I love Elon Musk's old interviews. I really enjoy hearing what he said back then, knowing what the future holds. This "CBS Sunday Morning" interview was recorded in 1998, when then 27-year-old Elon talked about starting his first company: “That was the summer of '95. I had no money whatsoever. I was working, doing research in Silicon Valley on a completely different subject and trying to start this company at the same time. And when it came time to decide do I want to do graduate studies or do I want to start this company and I decided to start the company. I had no money. As a graduate student, I would have received a scholarship and a stipend and so forth. In starting the company, I had nothing. I had no income source. So we found that an office was actually cheaper than an apartment in Silicon Valley. So we got this dinky little office that had a leaky roof. It was just the nastiest place you can imagine. And you lived in it. And I lived in it too and showered at the YMCA. This lasted for about three or four months. And the reason we chose this office, in addition to it being really cheap, was that there was an internet service provider on the floor below. So we were able to get really cheap internet access by drilling a hole in the floor and connecting to their server directly.”

Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion

24,804 views • 3 months ago

Pope Leo XIV responding to the US bishops’ statement on the detention and deportation of migrants: “No one has said that the United States should have open borders. I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter. But when people are living good lives, and many of them for 10, 15, 20 years, to treat them in a way that is extremely disrespectful to say the least, and there has been some violence unfortunately. I think that the Bishops have been very clear in what they said and I think that I was just invite all people in the United States to listen to them.”

Pope Leo XIV responding to the US bishops’ statement on the detention and deportation of migrants: “No one has said that the United States should have open borders. I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter. But when people are living good lives, and many of them for 10, 15, 20 years, to treat them in a way that is extremely disrespectful to say the least, and there has been some violence unfortunately. I think that the Bishops have been very clear in what they said and I think that I was just invite all people in the United States to listen to them.”

Catholic Sat

2,244,383 views • 10 months ago

#WATCH | Roorkee, Uttarakhand: At the IIT Roorkee Convocation, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval says, "I was a young IPS officer, new to the intelligence profession. I was in my 20s, and I was posted as in charge of intelligence in Sikkim. That was not a part of India at that time. It was becoming part of India. I was part of that process where the merger was taking place. But my responsibility also included looking after the border areas and collecting intelligence about the movement of the PLA, activities of the Chinese Army... So, once, we had an intelligence mission in the border area, and about eight days later, they had to return. So, five days went by, then ten days went by, then perhaps 15 days went by. For me, it was a matter of very great concern, not only professionally but also on the human side, that so many people—we don't know whether they are dead or alive, and what has happened to them. We got no reports of any avalanche or anything. It was a matter of deep worry and concern. But I got a telephone call from the headquarters, and my boss told me, "Have you sent some people across?" I said, "I do not know. They must be coming. They should have come in five or six days, but now it is about ten or eleven days." He said, "They are in Chinese custody now." They were caught by the Chinese and interrogated. Anyway, the Chinese returned them, probably after some talks or negotiations, or a deal must have been struck. So, they returned totally shattered, in shambles. And an inquiry was started. I knew that this was the end of my career. I was still in my twenties, and I had to start a new career. I saw the incident as something very unprofessional. Anyway, the inquiry was over. I wasn't found at fault. Probably, I had done everything right. The sketches and the maps that were given to us by the headquarters had some defects and mistakes in them. That is how it happened..."

#WATCH | Roorkee, Uttarakhand: At the IIT Roorkee Convocation, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval says, "I was a young IPS officer, new to the intelligence profession. I was in my 20s, and I was posted as in charge of intelligence in Sikkim. That was not a part of India at that time. It was becoming part of India. I was part of that process where the merger was taking place. But my responsibility also included looking after the border areas and collecting intelligence about the movement of the PLA, activities of the Chinese Army... So, once, we had an intelligence mission in the border area, and about eight days later, they had to return. So, five days went by, then ten days went by, then perhaps 15 days went by. For me, it was a matter of very great concern, not only professionally but also on the human side, that so many people—we don't know whether they are dead or alive, and what has happened to them. We got no reports of any avalanche or anything. It was a matter of deep worry and concern. But I got a telephone call from the headquarters, and my boss told me, "Have you sent some people across?" I said, "I do not know. They must be coming. They should have come in five or six days, but now it is about ten or eleven days." He said, "They are in Chinese custody now." They were caught by the Chinese and interrogated. Anyway, the Chinese returned them, probably after some talks or negotiations, or a deal must have been struck. So, they returned totally shattered, in shambles. And an inquiry was started. I knew that this was the end of my career. I was still in my twenties, and I had to start a new career. I saw the incident as something very unprofessional. Anyway, the inquiry was over. I wasn't found at fault. Probably, I had done everything right. The sketches and the maps that were given to us by the headquarters had some defects and mistakes in them. That is how it happened..."

ANI

615,324 views • 22 days ago

Melissa Barrera reveals that she would rejoin Scream if Spyglass sells the rights: “Not with the company that currently holds the rights. I love the franchise. But a lot of the hate and the diﬃculty that I've faced in the last years is because the leadership of that company made it a point to label me something that I'm not. And they never apologized, even when I was proven right.” “If the franchise were ever to leave those hands and go into more, into hands that would, I think, honor Wes Craven's legacy more, I think, yeah” #Scream #MelissaBarrera #Scream6

Melissa Barrera reveals that she would rejoin Scream if Spyglass sells the rights: “Not with the company that currently holds the rights. I love the franchise. But a lot of the hate and the diﬃculty that I've faced in the last years is because the leadership of that company made it a point to label me something that I'm not. And they never apologized, even when I was proven right.” “If the franchise were ever to leave those hands and go into more, into hands that would, I think, honor Wes Craven's legacy more, I think, yeah” #Scream #MelissaBarrera #Scream6

Scream News🎃

121,019 views • 16 days ago